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Message-ID: <56DF4BF7.8010904@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 22:02:31 +0000
From: Tristan Cacqueray <tdecacqu@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [OSSA 2016-007] Nova host data leak through
resize/migration (CVE-2016-2140)
On 03/08/2016 08:16 PM, Tristan Cacqueray wrote:
> ===========================================================
> OSSA-2016-007: Nova host data leak through resize/migration
> ===========================================================
>
> :Date: March 08, 2016
> :CVE: CVE-2016-2140
>
>
> Affects
> ~~~~~~~
> - Nova: <=2015.1.3, >=12.0.0 <=12.0.2
>
>
> Description
> ~~~~~~~~~~~
> Matthew Booth from Red Hat reported a vulnerability in Nova instance
> resize/migration. By overwriting an ephemeral or root disk with a
> malicious image before requesting a resize, an authenticated user may
> be able to read arbitrary files from the compute host. Only setups
> using libvirt driver with raw storage and setting "use_cow_images =
> False" (not default) are affected.
>
>
> Patches
> ~~~~~~~
> - https://review.openstack.org/289960 (Kilo)
> - https://review.openstack.org/289958 (Liberty)
> - https://review.openstack.org/289957 (Mitaka)
>
>
> Credits
> ~~~~~~~
> - Matthew Booth from Red Hat (CVE-2016-2140)
>
>
> References
> ~~~~~~~~~~
> - https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1548450
> - http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2140
>
>
> Notes
> ~~~~~
> - This fix will be included in future 2015.1.3 (kilo) and 12.0.3
> (liberty) releases.
There is a typo in the note, this fix will be included in future
2015.1.4 (kilo). Further advisories will drop that note entirely, use
http://releases.openstack.org/ to check stable version number including
the fix.
--
Tristan Cacqueray
OpenStack Vulnerability Management Team
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